Tyres ask a few questions?
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 17, 2002 at 00:00
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FISH N TRACK OUTBACK - TAG TOURS
I see there is a lot of interest in tyres at present, which is great and it must be the outback traveling season.
I see most people are preferring BFG of one dissribtion or another.
But no one has memtioned Cooper tyres.
I have found when they get down ( i mean down to 30% only) a bit they hang on in the wet and have an 80,000 km warrantry.
Lets continue this discussion further.
The average person travels outback on say one trip a year and does an odd weekend, but usually drives around town 90% of the time.
You want a good dual purpose tyre that gives a good ride and is sake in all conditions and wont get many puntures while away.
Hopefully we`ll get a few comments from the industry.
Reply By: Fraser Coast Adventures - Wednesday, Apr 17, 2002 at 00:00
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2002 at 00:00
here's my two bits worth
I have an 88 diesel troopy, it spends probably 80/20% of time on/off road but closer to 50/50% distance on/off road.
We started with 31x10.5r15 on 15x7's
Dunlop adventurers and these did not please, until they started to get a bit baldy and were great on sand.
They were discarded as i took up an offer to good to refuse on Goodyear wrangler aquatreads, THESE WERE SERIOUSLY GOOD ON ROAD, but that was all.
Next came a set of Dueler ATs , which proved a nice compomise.
I was then talked into beefing up a little to Dueler MT 33x12.5r15. I was expecting the noise to be terrible but there was no discernable difference. These tyres are the BEST sand tyres i have ever used, and when you let air out, there's plenty of it.
Corners on wet roads on the other hand are a whole new issue.
that's my 2 (3or4) bits worth.
Dave
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